The best Quotes by Patti Smith

If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.

I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

Bees

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.

The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

William Shakespeare Bob Dylan Herman Melville Bible

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Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Bruce Springsteen

And she was blinded by the light
Oh, cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright

Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the Light, Album: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.

You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark

Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark, Album: Born in the U.S.A.

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just coverin' up

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A., Album: Born in the U.S.A.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Bruce Springsteen

American Dream

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Bruce Springsteen

Revolution Leaders

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

Bruce Springsteen

Music

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Bruce Springsteen

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

Bruce Springsteen

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man

Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3

New York City Manhatten

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

Ralph Kiner

Chicago

Why are there so many Latina's in Illinois?
Because that's where the Chica go.

Chicago Illinois

Take me away, like I overdosed on cocaine
Or take me away like a bullet from Kurt Cobain, suicide
I'm from a windy city like Do or Die

The Game - My Life, Album: LAX

Kurt Cobain Chicago

You can leave Chicago, but it will never leave you.

Chicago

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Illinois - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Illinois

For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.

William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet

Love Valentine's Day Pisces ♓

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.

William Shakespeare

Criminal Minds

The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare in Macbeth

Heart Breakup Sorrow

Let's play it f*cking loud!

Bob Dylan

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

Bob Dylan

Falling in love Mind vs. Heart

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

Character

There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.

Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

Humanity Animals Conservation & Environment Protection

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

Laughing & Smile Positive Quotes

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

Buddha

Nature & Environment Bees Honey

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew - 7,12

Law Bible

Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it.

William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff,
Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough. [...]
Be bloody, bold, and resolute: laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of womas born
Shall harm Macbeth. [...]
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are.
Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him.

William Shakespeare in Macbeth

Well roar'd Lion.

William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lions

There are more things in Heaven and Earth
Than are dream't of in your Philosophy

William Shakespeare in Hamlet

Education School

Hell is empty, devils are here!

William Shakespeare - Der Sturm

Devil Hölle

Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.

William Shakespeare in Richard II

Words

For women are as Roses, whose fairr flowre,
Being once displaid, doth fall that verie howre.

William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night

Women Flowers Roses

Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but love.

William Shakespeare in Love's Labour's Lost

Love

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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